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KAZUKO HOHKI / Image: Oh Doh / Photographer: Manuel Vason

Image: Oh Doh
Photographer: Manuel Vason

KAZUKO HOHKI

Text-based: Medium|Interdisciplinary|Humour

SIZE OF COMPANY
3–5 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Kazuko Hohki
Producer
Jo Crowley

ARTISTIC POLICY
Born and raised in Japan, Kazuko Hohki came to England in 1978. Kazuko is an artist, singer, musician, animator, director, performer, and storyteller. Her critically acclaimed work combines theatre, live art, and performance, and fuses idiosyncratic storytelling, multimedia work, original songs, and her trademark deadpan humour. Before making her acclaimed solo work, Kazuko founded the Japanese female pop performance group the Frank Chickens, releasing five albums and touring the world.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Gentle, affectionate and humorous.
The Independent on Sunday
Delightfully forthright.  A complex and fascinating exercise in modern tragic-comedy.
The Times
Completely delightful.  Lit up with a romantic, care free humour that can only inspire the highest of spirits.  
Time Out Critics Choice

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers
Inspired by Mary Norton’s children’s story The Borrowers, a site-responsive interactive performance and installation event for adults, that reveals the unique world and culture of the small people who live under the floorboards.
75 minutes, no interval, 4-5 on the road
Oh Doh
A site-responsive outdoor promenade show about ‘endings’. Through a weave of stories, performances, installations and interventions an audience is taken on a journey through familiar, historical and fictional worlds to ‘utopia’.
80 minutes, no interval, 7-8 on the road
My Husband is a Spaceman
A deceptively simple love story of a Japanese office girl and an English Anthropologist. Explores a cross-cultural relationship, using storytelling, music, puppetry, film and animation.
65 minutes, no interval, 3 on the road
Toothless
A poignant comic elegy to Kazuko's Mother, a popular priestess in Japan. A witty, moving, unexpected and poignant examination of a relationship with a mother, a country and life and death.
65 minutes, 3 to 4 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Last Night I Dreamed I Was an Eskimo
A rich hallucinatory fantasy, inspired by Norwegian Explorer Fridjtof Nansen’s visionary expedition of 1893-06 to the North Pole. This performance and installation will blend storytelling, music, projection, puppetry, light and darkness to address the themes of absence, myths of the arctic, survival and illusion.
(Available from autumn 2009)

WRAP-AROUND
Tailor-made workshops (story telling, object animation, devising, site responsive theatre, adaptation)
Post-performance discussions
Residencies
Masterclasses
Talks

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Ireland: Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers
2006 Canada, Malta: My Husband is a Spaceman
2005 Israel, Holland: My Husband is a Spaceman

TOURING AVAILABILITY
From January 2009
Last Night I Dreamed I Was An Eskimo from autumn 2009